The big heat

Blu-ray - 2025

Noir doesn't get any more hard-boiled than this scorching tale of vice and retribution, a film that finds director Fritz Lang working at the peak of his Hollywood style stripped to the bone, simmering with outrage, and fatalistic to the core. A tightly wound Glenn Ford stars as a homicide detective whose investigation into a sprawling crime syndicate becomes a shockingly personal, hate-fueled quest for revenge. Costarring an iconic Gloria Grahame as the mink-coated gangster's moll with her own axe to grind, and featuring a supporting cast led by a sensationally sleazy Lee Marvin, The Big Heat hits with raw, unstoppable force.

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Subjects
Genres
Film noir
Gangster films
Film adaptations
Fiction films
Feature films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Detective and mystery films
Published
[New York] : The Criterion Collection [2025]
Language
English
Other Authors
Fritz Lang, 1890-1976 (film director), Glenn Ford, 1916-2006 (actor), Gloria Grahame, Lee Marvin
Edition
Blu-ray special edition
Item Description
Originally released as motion picture in 1953.
Special features: New audio commentary by film-noir experts Alain Silver and James Ursini ; new video essay by critic Farran Smith Nehme on the women in the film ; audio interviews with director Fritz Lang, conducted by film historian Gideon Bachmann and filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich ; interviews with filmmakers Michael Mann and Martin Scorsese ; trailer.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
Format
Blu-ray, region A; uncompresssed PCM mono; requires Blu-ray player.
ISBN
9798886072983
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